From where the "soot" came in the poem?
"We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot."
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From where the "soot" came in the poem?
"Soot," is not to be taken literally, you need to see the "no more than if," which tells you the poet is using descriptive language here.
Source(s): The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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